annerocious: A truly brilliant piece of visual storytelling. Revealing character? Check. Conflict? Check. Complication? Check. Sitting over coffee dishing backstory is not required when you build a scene this way. Everything you need to know, you can see.
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nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. A good title tells a story for you, honing in on the theme and tone. When a reader scans a list of titles, a strong one puts them in an optimistic mood. Keep it short. A short title suggests that you know exactly what your story is. A…
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DON’T BLEND IN annerocious: I read a lot of scripts that are perfectly competent, but accomplish nothing new. They might as well be movies from ten years ago with new character names and a different maguffin. If you are trying to get somewhere in a competition, the one thing you have on your side is…
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annerocious: You have to get past thinking of them in terms of who would be willing to have sex with them. Go out in the street and look at ALL the women. Every single one of them has compelling dramatic conflict in their lives. Imagine that.
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bitterbitchclubpresident: nomorethumbs: Peggy Oki, Queen of the Z-Boys. The only female to grace the Zephyr skate team. She needs a movie!!! Yup.
Read moreI find it impossible to write fiction that’s set after 2002. [….] It’s just that it’s inconceivable to depict contemporary times authentically without including interludes where characters stare at their cell phones instead of advancing their plotlines – their lives – towards some conclusion. Which is, as a thing to read, mind-numbingly dull. Unless I…
Read moreWhat is the trick for writing dialogue? That you are not running a wiretap for the FBI. I used to have a boyfriend who was an assistant District Attorney in narcotics in New York and he used to have to read wiretaps. And he would bring them home, three feet high, two women who were…
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